Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tribunal, completed three months after V-E day, was the ex-post-facto law on which the trials were based. He cited some precedents for the master charge (the unratified Geneva Protocol of 1924, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, various League of Nations declarations treated aggressive war as an international crime). But, with more courage than legal logic, Jackson faced the basic fact: "It may be said that this is new law, not authoritatively declared at the time they [the defendants] did the acts it condemns. ... I cannot, of course, deny that these men are surprised that this...
...ironic fact stood out last week. While the two most powerful nations on earth, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., were haughtily ordering other peoples to put their houses in order, the police of New York and Moscow were coping, not too successfully, with crime waves...
...Army turned down the New York City Police Department's plea that the return of former policemen be speeded, told the cops to wait their turn. In the U.S.S.R. they do things differently: Red Army generals took a look at the crime statistics presented to them by Moscow police officials, sent in a division of cavalry...
...Tracy Deen (Melchor Ferrer) and Negro Nonnie Anderson (Jane White) widens out beyond personal tragedy into social tragedy. The rooted Southern prejudices, the rankling inequalities, the violence that leads Nonnie's brother to murder Tracy, the feeling that leads a mob to lynch an innocent Negro for the crime-all these are like pieces in a sociological puzzle...
...rate-cutting was a crime in British eyes because Britain's BOAC, charging $647, was not ready to compete with it. While Pan Am and American were getting surplus DC-45, BOAC continued to fly into Baltimore with Boeing clippers, which one British airman called: "A bit antique, you know...